Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time this year, the Summer School has established a permanent office to handle the student employment situation. Miss Powell, who will hold forth on these matters in Weld Hall 6, reports that she has a number of both casual and permanent jobs available--baby sitting, gardening, message running, and the like--but cautions that the opportunities are by no means abundant. Interested students should see her as soon as possible...
...Land-tax reform to encourage more productive use of land. Much of Colombia's good crop land is owned by absentees who use it for low-yield grazing, or simply hold on to it as an investment. By taxing unused and underused land, the government could force big landowners to sell some of their holdings to farmers or go into farming themselves...
Last autumn, charged CEA, Kosuga and Siegel bought 928 carloads of onions, which were shipped to Chicago and stored. This constituted 98% of the onion stocks available in Chicago for onion futures delivery. They then asked 13 of the growers to buy onions, threatening to dump their onion holdings on the market and force down prices if the growers refused. The growers accordingly bought 285 carloads for which they paid $168,000. In return, Kosuga and Siegel promised to hold their onion stocks off the market until March 1956, thus supporting the long side of the market...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
When he is not trying to wash off all that bear fat from Princess Sunday, big dimwit David is trying to hold up his end of the fur trade against the encroaching North West Company-or "pedlars," as they are called by Hudson Bay's old guard-and H.B.'s head man, Lord Selkirk, a contemptible character who weighs only 110 Ibs. While brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages...